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A French literary legend, a gentleman thief with the moral code of Robin Hood, the wits of Sherlock Holmes, and the anti-aristocratic instincts of Robespierre.' - The Atlantic The international bestseller and inspiration for the hit show, LUPIN. Arsene Lupin is France's most famous gentleman thief, a charming rapscallion with a heart of gold - and a master of deception.Arsene Lupin steals from the rich, outsmarts the police, and is generous to...

Bold ... shocking." - The New York Times"Anne might have been the most radical Brontë of all ... The Tenant of Wildfell Hall might be one of the first truly feminist novels." - Vox"The title of 'the first feminist novel' has been awarded to other books, perhaps with less justice." - The GuardianWhen The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was published in 1848, critics condemned its portrayal of male violence and alcoholic abuse, recommending that no woma...

An intricate web of dependence, manipulation, and appropriation." - The New Yorker"Second Place owes a debt to Lorenzo in Taos, Mabel Dodge Luhan's 1932 memoir of the time D. H. Lawrence came to stay with her in Taos, New Mexico" - Rachel Cusk"It's the most serious 'confession' that ever came out of America and perhaps the most heart-destroying revelation of the American life-process that ever has or ever will be produced." - D.H LawrenceWritt...

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More than any other monster of classic horror, Dracula pairs violent threat with a carnal one. Bram Stoker's Gothic novel revitalized the vampire legend." - The New York TimesI was afraid to raise my eyes... Lower and lower went her head as the lips went below the range of my mouth and chin and seemed about to fasten on my throat. Then she paused, and I could hear the churning sound of her tongue as it licked her teeth and lips, and could feel...

Victorine has its own feral brilliance ... Hutchins can write with perverse and often disquieting power." - The London Review of BooksVictorine is a sly, shocking, one-of-a-kind novel that explores sex and society with wayward and unabashedly weird inspiration, a drive-by snapshot of the great abject American family in its suburban haunts by a literary maverick whose work looks forward to - and sometimes outstrips - David Lynch's Blue Velvet a...

The most exciting novel I have ever read" - Bertrand Russell "At the end of the nineteenth century, Ethel Boole [Voynich] had gone to Russia as a young girl and become involved with the revolutionaries in Saint Petersburg. She wrote a novel called The Gadfly - it told a powerful, romantic story of a young girl who sacrificed everything for revolution. Without realising it, [Voynich] had become a hero of the Russian revolution ... her novel ins...

One of the great feminist novels of the 19th century' - Vivian GornickGeorge Gissing's intensely modern The Odd Women is one of the truly great novels of nineteenth-century fiction. The impoverished Madden sisters are ill-equiped to support themselves when their father dies, and Monica sees her only chance of escape from a life of grinding misery in marriage. When she is befriended by two independent women, who strive to educate single women t...

Termed the finest study of the mind of a dog ever written, a few boldly assert that it is no doubt one of the greatest portrayals of a man's mind' - New York TimesIn Bashan and I (sometime referred to as A Man and His Dog), Thomas Mann, the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Magic Mountain and Death in Venice, writes in the most remarkable way of the unique relation that links a dog with his master. These memoirs read as a novel, and describe i...

Emotional quicksand ... illuminating a spiritual and social condition." - The New YorkerOblomov is a timeless novel and a monument to human idleness. From the pen of Ivan Goncharov (1812-1891) emerged a portrait of a young man - Ilya Ilyitch Oblomov - a dreamer, content above all to spend most of the day in bed. Rich in situational comedy, psychological complexity and social satire, Oblomov is a masterpiece of skilled and imaginative literatur...

The Fortunes of Richard Mahony deserves the accolade of the Great Australian Novel' - Peter CravenA superb, sprawling trilogy of a family fortune won and lost in gold-rush Australia. The Fortunes of Richard Mahony is Australia's most significant nineteenth-century work. It tells the story of Richard Mahony, loosely based on the author's own father, and his rise and tragic fall in Australia's gold rush.All three volumes - Australia Felix, The W...

We are in the world of Conrad's Under Western Eyes.' - The GuardianHailed as one of Joseph Conrad's finest literary achievements, this is the story of a young man unwittingly caught in the political turmoil of pre-Revolutionary czarist Russia.A gripping novel that ultimately questions our capacity for moral strength and the depths of human integrity. This new edition includes commentary and a reading group guide.'A novel crowded with enigmas &...

A crucially important book." - The Guardian"One of Orwell's very best books and perhaps the best book that exists on the Spanish Civil War." - The New YorkerHomage to Catalonia is George Orwell's brutally honest account of his experience as a militiaman during the Spanish Civil War. In the last days of 1936, Spain was five months into a bitter civil war, in which volunteers from many countries were helping the elected government of the Spanish...

The Enchanted April is a pure wish-fulfillment story but there's an acid edge to it ... hints of feminist revolt beneath the sparkly surface.' - Los Angeles Times'A genuine feeling for color and for beauty.' - The New York TimesAn immediate bestseller upon its first publication The Enchanted April set off a craze for tourism to the Italian Riviera that continues today. A charming, slyly comic feminist novel of longing and transformation.The wo...

Many others have said it before, and more eloquently, but, man, is "Middlemarch" good. I mean, miss-your-stop-on-the-train and sneak-a-read-at-work good.' - The New YorkerConsidered one the masterpieces of realist fiction, George Eliot's novel, Middlemarch is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillme...

The virtuoso performances of a sophisticated stylist ... compact, skilful, and hilarious." - Randall ReidAmerican modernist Nathanael West's first novel, The Dream Life of Balso Snell, is an anti-künstleroman, it's a portrait of a young artist discovering his powerlessness. The title character, a lyric poet, takes a nightmare tour through the bowels of the Trojan Horse, meeting a series of failed and frustrated writers along the way. Each surr...

A neglected classic.' - The New York Times'Among the most moving diaries ever created.' - Ronald Blythe'The 100-year-old multiple sclerosis diary that became a classic ... a furious, sometimes ecstatic, volatile little book.' - The GuardianThe life of Bruce Frederick Cummings (1889-1919), who wrote under the name of W. N. P. Barbellion, was tragically curtailed by multiple sclerosis. The Journal of a Disappointed Man begins as an ambitious tee...

West, a parodist with rancid genius, achieved his masterwork in Miss Lonelyhearts." - Harold BloomAn American classic praised by great writers from Flannery O'Conner to Jonathan Lethem, Miss Lonelyhearts is an Expressionist black comedy set in New York City during the Great Depression. The blackly comic energy of Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts - its caustic ebullience, the strange buoyancy of its suffering - is a remarkably American achiev...

The most diabolical humor ... Nat's best book is A Cool Million.' - John FanteA Cool Million: or The Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin is Nathanael West's third novel, published in 1934. It is a brutal satire of eternal optimism.A Cool Million, as its subtitle suggests, presents "the dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin, " piece by piece. As a satire of the Horatio Alger myth of success, the novel is evocative of Voltaire's Candide, which satirized the phi...

Two Serious Ladies is a singular achievement - a modernist cult classic." - The Guardian"The most important writer of prose fiction in modern American letters" - Tennessee WilliamsInspired by the author's honeymoon in Mexico with her husband, the writer and composer Paul Bowles, Two Serious Ladies (1943) is the only novel by avant-garde literary star Jane Bowles. A modernist cult-classic - mysterious, profound, anarchic, and funny - that follo...